About me

I’m a PhD student in robotics at the University of Siena, working on reinforcement learning for mobile robot navigation in crowded and unstructured environments.

Research topics

• Reinforcement learning
• Social navigation
• Human motion models

Publications

1. Van Der Meer, T., Garulli, A., Giannitrapani, A., & Quartullo, R. (2025). A Comparative Study of Human Motion Models in Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Social Robot Navigation. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. |   Paper |   Github   |